Christmas crackers

Image Skincare

Brighter, youthful and more radiant skin is the focus of Image Skincare’s Christmas collection. The Hydrating Essentials set (pictured) is ideal for dry skin, featuring best-selling Vital C Hydrating Facial Cleanser, Vital C Hydrating Anti-Ageing Serum and Daily Ultimate Protection Moisturizer with SPF 50. The Age-Defying Essentials set targets wrinkles with stem cell technology-based cleanser The Max, Ageless Total Anti-Ageing Serum and a moisturiser with SPF 50; while the Brightening Essentials Set adds radiance to dull skin with the Ormedic Balancing Facial Cleanser, Iluma Intense Brightening Serum and Prevention+ Daily Matte Moisturizer.

Trade: £55 for each set 0345 504 0461 imageskincare.co.uk

Dermalogica

The brand’s seven-piece festive collection combines hero products in joyful packaging created by Makerie Studio paper artist Julie Wilkinson. The collection includes vitamin C-infused Your Brightest Glow Yet set, which contains popular products BioLumin-C Serum and Eye Serum; threepiece skin refreshing Your Best Cleanse + Glow set (pictured); wrinkle-fighting Your Super Rich Reveal set; three-piece Our Best + Brightest set; and Cleanse + Glow to Go, which features travel-size versions of PreCleanse, Special Cleansing Gel and Daily Microfoliant. There are also two stocking fillers - Travel Bright and Body Glow to Go.

Trade: from £6.80-£47.90 0800 917 7147 dermalogica.co.uk

Murad

Murad’s six-piece Christmas Collection has something for every client type, making the sets easy sellers this festive season. Glow Forward Luxury Set (pictured) is the hero item, featuring four full-sized products to help skin glow - Prebiotic 4-in-1 Multicleanser, Vita-C Glycolic Brightening Serum, Hydro-Dynamic Ultimate Moisture and City Skin Age Defense SPF 50. Other sets include darkspot- fighting Love at First Bright; moisture-locking You Dew You; retinol-infused Take Time Off; pigmentation-focused Bright On; and a travelsized collection of the brand’s award-winning retinol trio Firm Believer.

Trade: from £8.13-£59.58 020 7870 4813 murad.co.uk

CND

CND’s Cocktail Couture Collection contains six bold shades that are perfect for Christmas party season, making clients’ nails pop at the most exciting time of the year. The line-up includes fiery Devil Red, rich crimson Bordeaux Babe; cool berry red How Merlot; elegant burgundy shimmer Drama Queen; gleaming Get That Gold; and aqua-green shimmering She’s A Gem! The shades are available in both CND Shellac gel-polish and Vinylux long-wear polish to help clients dazzle everyone around them this Christmas.

Trade: £13.95 for Shellac; £4.95 for Vinylux 0333 000 7000 (Sweet Squared) sweetsquared.com

Germaine de Capuccini

There are two Germaine de Capuccini gift sets, each with an eco-refill container that can be placed inside the original product container when empty to help reduce single-use plastic waste. The Golden Hours collection (pictured) is presented in a beautiful box comprising a 50ml moisturiser from one of the brand’s top ranges - Timexpert Rides, Timexpert SRNS, Timexpert C or Excel Therapy O2 - and a 15ml Timexpert SRNS Illuminating Detox Eye Cream. The Moments gift set features Hydracure and Royal Jelly 50ml moisturisers with a 15ml Hyaluronic Force Serum.

Trade: from £30.35 for Golden Hours; from £24.40 for The Moments 0845 600 0203 germaine-de-capuccini.co.uk

Guinot

The 12-piece festive collection combines the brand’s hero products in packaging inspired by pink and red healing agate gemstones, which are known to be symbolic of love and provide a sense of security. The products vary from hydrating lotions for the face and lips, A Moment of Calm scented candle and a rejuvenating four-piece set for the body, to the Age Defying and Ever-Youthful sets for refreshed-looking skin. Guinot’s festive collection also includes a Men’s Dynamic Duo kit, featuring a cleansing gel and regenerating moisturiser to refresh, revive and soothe skin.

Trade: from £5.50 to £112 01344 873123 guinot.co.uk

Caudalie

The French skincare brand has four Christmas gift sets all with eco-friendly packaging. The festive Beauty Elixir Christmas Set (pictured) contains threestep skincare regime Instant Foaming Cleanser, Glycolic Peel Mask and limited-edition Beauty Elixir, which purifies and clears the complexion while restoring a natural glow. There are also two smaller gifts that are ideal stocking fillers - the Beauty Elixir Mini Mist Bauble and Vinosource Hydration Mini Cracker, with three mini Vinosource products - plus one Festive Pamper Box featuring Vine Body Butter and Hand and Nail Cream for deep hydration.

RRP: from £10 020 7720 7111 uk.caudalie.com

Outback Organics

Busy clients will have the chance to get partyready on the go with the help of Outback Organics’ Christmas gift sets, all in biodegradable and recyclable packaging. The Big Wonders for Down Under five-product set includes postwax treatment essentials Lemon Myrtle Hand & Body Lotion, Face & Body Scrub, Bush Balm, Skin Wash and Ingrown Hair Serum. The Green & Gold Massage Body Oils collection comprises essential oil and organic herbal extract-infused body oils in five varieties - Detox, Indulgence, Rejuvenate, Relaxing and Uplifting. The body oils are suitable for vegans.

Trade: £17.50 for Big Wonders for Down Under, £18.95 for Body Oils 01823 663322 outbackorganics.co.uk

Spongellé

Spongellé has designed a limited-edition Private Reserve Collection of body buffers for Christmas, each enriched with a scent created by experienced perfumers from European fine fragrance houses. Enriched with extracts of yuzu, edelweiss and vetiver, the body buffers cleanse, exfoliate, massage and nourish the skin for 14-plus washes. The five body buffers come in Tobacco Vanilla, Black Orchid, Peony Flower, Blackberry and Night Jasmine fragrances, all paraben-free.

Trade: £6.95 each 0345 217 1360 (Gerrard International) gerrardinternational.com

Gaia Skincare

15 Christmas goodies, from festive candles and diffusers infused with geranium and lemongrass, to hero-packed gift sets and holiday crackers, are on the festive line-up from natural skincare brand Gaia. The most decadent set in the Christmas collection is the Facial Range Trio, packed with the brand’s award-winning Face Exfoliator, Cleansing Balm and Facial Moisturiser, which work to leave skin radiant and protected. Other products include the Cleanse and Condition, Naturally Gaia Mini and Sleep sets.

Trade: from £6.70-£56.95 01752 344455 gaiaskincare.com

Elemis

The British skincare brand’s 25 Days of Spectacular Skin Advent Calendar is back and features Elemis’s most iconic face and body products. The brand doesn’t want to spoil the skincare surprises behind every door but has confirmed that some of the hero items included are Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm + Cleansing Cloth, Superfood Blackcurrant Jelly Exfoliator, and Sea Lavender and Samphire Body Cream; while the gift behind door 25 will be a full-size jar of Pro-Collagen Marine Cream. The gifts featured in the advent calendar are worth £403.

RRP: £175 0117 316 1888 elemis.com